He's giving me full versions of Office for OS9, the version before Office v.X, and a full version of Virtual PC with WindowsMe, and some various games. He's giving me Airport and 1…

I have always liked IBM hard disk drives. IBM has recently come out with hard drives that hold 30 gigabytes, if I remember correctly. These drives spin at 5400 RPM, one of the fast…

5400 RPM is one of the SLOWEST drive speeds, not the fastest. more importantly seek and access time would be better numbers to look at if you are going to do any high disk i/o. [T…

"residentEvil", I don't think you've understood. We're talking mobile drives. The standard rotational speed for mobile drives is 4500 RPM. Before you flame another member (sorry i…

nope, it was not a flam and i do read. the question was about mobile, you answered merely as ibm. assumption was mobile, but you said market and to me, thats all inclusive to all h…

I dunno, I think that it was pretty clear that 5400 was in reference to mobile drives (I think 12,000 is the fastest for desktops?)... regardless, sean is right... 5400 RPM is the …

i wasn't saying anyone was right or wrong. i said 5400 is slow. man, people have a complex here. if you say 5400 isn't slow, deskptop or laptop, then the entire point was lost. get…

You might backup your posts with facts, like the difference in speed between whatever and whatever. If mobile hard disk drives were faster, with the technology we have today, they…

While some of sean's claims above were wrong (specifically those about thermally induced noise), he is correct that 5400RPM is the fastest available for notebook drives (4200 is st…

About the searing heat warping the innards, it turns out I was wrong. Drives might require thermal recalculation, but their innards won't warp enough to make more noise.

Whoops, I guess we posted at the same time... http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif

thank you for letting me rant. thats all i was getting at was it's slowness compared to other drives on the market. i made no claims other than to stick with seek/access times for …

http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif Delete your account? That would be abuse of power. Most definitely. I just became a moderator today, perhaps right after I said "I do…

no harm, no foul. i'm easy going http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

Getting back to the original question, I don't think the 5400 RPM drives are available yet. Are they? I just installed an 18 gig Toshiba (standard 4,200 RPM) in my G3 266 Wallst…

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My FireWire PowerBook, named Phoenix, burns Pentium notebooks as a daily chore... I've got a really, really cool Photoshopped (by yours truely) picture of a phoenix and FireWire im…

G R E A T ! Thanks alot!

Thats correct, The harddrive of the powerbook is much more vulnerable to vibration and impact when it is spinning. If you move or jolt it when its on, you can cause the drive to "h…

While it's true that the HD is more vulnerable while it's spinning, it's still pretty robust. I carry running laptops around our office on a semi-regular basis, mainly because they…

Moving moving computers (sorry - couldn't resist) is one of those things like hot swapping SCSI drives and ADB cables - you shouldn't do it, but I've done it for years. I sometimes…

Pretty much, as long as you don't pretend it's a football, your PowerBook will be fine, even if you regularly move it around while on. Don't sweat it. While it is true that hard d…

I pretend my PowerBook is a football! http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/wink.gif HEHE! http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

Just look at HD based MP3 car players. A friend of mine has one in his SUV, and he uses it off-road all the time. Now that's a lot more abuse than walking around with your pismo(…

I use my bronze powerbook as an mp3 player in my car, using a cassette adapter. No problems so far, but I keep backups.